Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britons have a steadily deepening interest in U.S. as well as home politics. Two weeks ago the Yorkshire Post, owned by Anthony Eden's family, asked Americans to reelect Mr. Roosevelt. Last week the Church of England Newspaper (which, despite its name, speaks only for a Low Church faction) plunked for Term IV: "To pretend that the [U.S.] election this year is the concern only of the American people is just stupid. . . . [It] is fraught with incalculable significance for all mankind...
This regrettable speech of Governor Wills is the first authoritative warning the Republicans have had that there is a faction . . . who demand that their candidate receive the Republican nomination or else...
...vertiginous New York office. Their job: to tell the truth, but not the whole truth about the U.S. to its friends and enemies, and to neutrals abroad. (News of U.S. strikes, for example, is not sent.) Critics have accused the Manhattan psychological warriors of being leftish, of being faction-ridden...
This year California has a strong and active Willkie faction. But the bulk of the State's Republican leaders, including those for whom Willkie is too liberal, are waiting to see how the bandwagons roll. Thus far they are less interested in nominating any particular candidate than in electing some candidate, and primarily interested in the political concessions which California and the other Western states can exact by their convention bargaining. So intent is Governor Warren on retaining this bargaining power that though denying he is either a candidate or anti-Willkie, he told a TIME correspondent last week...
...this is the very logic which explodes the theory itself. What safety can there ever be in a hereditary monarchy when even a ruler with a fairly enlightened point of view is nothing but the tool of the faction in power? . . . The religious zeal of Japanese loyalty and patriotism must be broken, and through the Emperor, if humanism is ever to penetrate to the Nipponese themselves...